Joseph winsor newton



(No Model.)

J. W. NEWTON.

GAR COUPLING. No. 363,297. Patented May 1'7, 188'].

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SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 363,297, dated May 17, 1887.

' Application filed February 4, 1887. Serial No. 226,548. (No model.)

To all whom it'may concern.-

Be it known that I, JOSEPH WINsoR Nnw- TON, of (Jranston, in the county of Providence and State of Rhode Island, have invented a new and Improved Oar-0oupling, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

My invention relates to an improvement in car-couplings, and has for its object to provide a coupler in which the pin may be raised or lowered from the side of the car,'and wherein the link will be automatically guided into the draw-head of an opposing coupler.

The invention consists inthe construction and combination of the several parts, as will be hereinafter fully described, and set forth in the claims.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, in which similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in both the figures.

Figure l is a perspective view of opposing couplers in position to couple, and Fig. 2 is a longitudinal vertical section through the same coupled.

The draw-head A may beattached to the car in any approved manner, and is provided with a link-opening, a, and a transverse offset, 13, within said link-opening at the bottom and rearend thereof, the said offset being adapted to constitute a support or seat for one end of the link 0 when in position for coupling. To each side of the draw-head a chain, D, is attached. These chains are of equal length, and are adapted to extend downward below the said draw-head and support a transverse bar,

D, beneath the same.

Recesses d are cut in the front edges of the draw-head in the same horizontal plane, near the bottom, the top edges of which recesses are substantially in alignment with the top of the seat or offset B.

When the link (I is to be placed in position to couple with an opposing coupler, the suspended or swinging bar D is entered into the recesses d, transversely the link-opening, and the link is thereupon seated at the inner end upon the offset B and ncar its outer end upon the bar D. Thus it will be observed that the link is held in a horizontal position above the lower surface of the link-opening, permitting usual, upon the scat-bar D.

the said link to freely enter the draw-head of the opposing coupler.

A shaft, E, is journaled in brackets e at the ends of the car, which shaft,extending.from side to side of said car and above the drawhead, is provided at each end with a handwheel, F, or equivalent device, for rotating the shaft, and the said shaft is also provided cent-rally between the brackets with an integral drum, G.

To the periphery of the drum and centrally the same a chain, H, is secured, the outer end of which chain is attached to a coupling-pin, h, entering the usual pin-aperture in the drawhead, as illustrated. The length of the chain H is preferably equal to the distance intervening the top of the coupling-pin when in its normal position and the surface of the drum, the purpose being to effect by one turn of the hand-wheels a complete disengagement of the pin from the link.

In operation the link is horizontally positioncd in the draw-head of one coupler, as above described, and locked by dropping the pin through said links, as illustrated to the left in Fig. 1. In the opposing coupler the swinging seat-bar D is allowed to hang beneath the draw-head, the pin being held in suspension above the link-opening. As the drawheads come together and the link enters the opposing draw-head, the pin thereof is dropped through the link, and as the cars are drawn apart and the draw-heads separate the seat-bar D, utilized to support the link in one draw-head, automatically drops out of the recesses d and swings beneath said draw-head.

When the coupler is used with an opposing coupler of greater height, the inner end of the link may be removed from the offset B and al lowed to rest upon the floor of the linkopening, the outer end being allowed to rest, as

An upward inclination of the link is thereby obtained and a coupling easily effected.

Having thus fully described my invention, I claim as newand desire to secure by Letters Patent 1. In a car coupler, the combination, with the draw-head provided with aligning recess in its forward edges, of a bar attached to the draw-head and swinging normally transversely below the same, the said bar being adapted to enter said recess in coupling and support one end of the link, substantially as shown and described.

2. In a car-couplenthe combination, with the draw-head A, provided with aligning recesses d, and an offset, B, in the rear of the link-opening, of a swinging bar, D, attached to said draw-head, adapted to enter said recesses, substantially as shown and described,

whereby the link is supported ina horizontal position by said offset and swinging bar, as set forth.

3. In a car-coupler, the combination, with the draw-head A, provided with aligning recess'es d in the front edges, an offset, 13, in the rear of the link-opening, and a swinging bar, D, attached to the sides of said drawhead, adapted to enter said recesses, of a transverse shaft, E, journaled at the ends of the car above the draw-head, provided with hand-wheels F, an integral drum, G, and a chain, H, uniting said drum with the couplingfpin, substantially as shown and described, and for the purpose herein set forth. JOSEPH WINSOR NEWTON. Witnesses:

WM. W. RIOKARD, THOMAS HARRIS. 

